Proposal Writing
Route2025 offers extensive proposal writing support for researchers and enterprises from the Saarland. It covers both joint projects as well as individual grants (e.g. ERC-Grants and SME Instrument) in Horizon 2020. Our support measures perfectly complement those already provided by individual organisations and other EU funding helpdesks in the Saarland, either by pointing you in the right direction or by supplementing their service offers with a specific approach tailored to your proposal endeavour.
Project Partner
Saarland researchers and companies participating as partners in a joint project, will receive strategic support concerning the proposal.
- Strategic advice on how to align the proposal's approach with the call's thematic topic
- Support in structuring the project's content and identifying its objectives, more specifically its outcomes and their application/exploitation
- Thorough and critical review of the complete proposal
We can also help write or contribute towards certain non-scientific proposal parts such as explaining the project's impact, and you can count on our support in finding international project partners.
Project Coordination
Our full-service package is aimed at motivating potential coordinators to submit their own project proposal, no matter during what stage or at what level. Route2025's support ranges from submitting a project outline, or first-stage proposal in a two-step process, help with writing and putting together a single full proposal, or just providing minimal assistance as needed.
We're here to help:
- Strategic advice on how to align the proposal's approach with the call's thematic topic
- Support in structuring the project's content and identifying its objectives, more specifically its outcomes and their application/exploitation
- Thorough and critical review of the complete proposal
- Allocation of proposal writing responsibilities with the consortium
- Proposal writing coordination incl. timing and scheduling
- Communiation support
- Support in writing or contributing towards non-scientific proposal parts
- International project partner search
- Coordination of work plan and planned budget in accordance with the funding programme's financial guidelines
- Layout and graphics
- Editorial check i.e. coherency between the different sections, writing and language errors
ERC Proposals
Here support is available for all types of ERC Grants: Starting Grant, Consolidator Grant, Advanced Grant and Synergy Grant.
- Provision of proposal documents (call text, guidelines, proposal template)
- Step-by-step information about the proposal process
- Setup of a proposal schedule and task list
- Strategic advice in drafting the proposal so that it meets the call criteria, and is clearly focussed on its unique selling point
- Revision and annotation
- Editorial check i.e. coherency between the different sections, writing and language errors
- Help with writing specific sections in order to increase the proposal's impact
SME Instrument
The SME instrument has been designed specifically for single or groups of highly innovative SMEs with international ambitions, determined to turn strong, innovative business ideas into winners on the market. It is highly competitive, providing full-cycle business innovation support from the stage of business idea conception to commercialisation. Please contact us to discuss whether your proposal idea qualifies for this funding instrument.